S-N Editorial

Shopping has become an exercise in convenience over the last two decades. Everything we could ever need or want is a simple click away on the internet, and you don’t even have to leave your house to shop for the holidays. Sure, it’s nice to avoid crowds, but online shopping leaves a gaping hole in communities like ours whose backbone is comprised of hard-working small business owners trying to make their hometowns thrive.

The reasons for keeping your money local are many, but sometimes easy to forget when advertisements from big box stores flood the airwaves, pop up on our screens and pack mai...